Top 10 Skills That Pay for Architectural and Engineering Managers

Making sure you have the right skill sets for your role can make a difference in your compensation. Both employees and comp managers pricing employees should understand which skill sets have the largest financial impact. Having the following ten skill sets can greatly increase the potential of a Architectural and Engineering Manager’s salary being aligned with SalaryExpert’s compensation salary data.  

SalaryExpert®, powered by ERI, has analyzed thousands of skills and found these top-paying skills for Architectural and Engineering Managers: 

1. Operations Administration - 6% The processes, activities, tools, and standards involved in operating, administering, managing, and maintaining any system. 

 

 

2. Business Administration- 5% The management of business operations and decision-making, as well as the efficient organization of people and other resources to direct activities towards common goals and objectives. 

 

 

3. Personnel Administration- 4% The phase of management concerned with the engagement and effective utilization of manpower to obtain optimum efficiency of human resources. 

 

 

4. Project Management- 4% The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet the project requirements and in planning, control, monitoring, and reviewing projects. 

 

 

5. Strategic Thinking- 3% A planning process that applies innovation, strategic planning, and operational planning to develop business strategies that have a greater chance for success.  

 

 

6. Organizational Management- 3% The process of organizing, planning, leading, and controlling resources within an entity with the overall aim of achieving its objectives. 

 

 

7. Autodesk Revit- 3% A building information modelling software for architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, designers, and contractors.  

 

 

8. Predictive Analytics- 2% A variety of statistical techniques, including data mining, predictive modelling, and machine learning, that analyzes current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events. 

 

 

9. C#- 3% A general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, lexically scoped, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.

 

 

10. Employee Relations- 3% Communications between management and employees concerning workplace decisions, grievances, conflicts, problem resolutions, unions, and issues of collective bargaining. 

 

 

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